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NHL 2Night
''NHL 2Night'' is a former news magazine that used to broadcast highlights of National Hockey League games and stories about the league up to five nights a week on ESPN and ESPN2. It was usually broadcast live at 10:00PM ET or immediately following a game on ESPN2. It was then re-broadcast a few times throughout the night and following day. It debuted in 1995. The show was originally hosted by Bill Pidto and later John Buccigross. Barry Melrose was the main analyst. Cancellation The NHL and ESPN extended their broadcast agreement for the 2004–05 season, with options for the two following seasons. From a high of 129 game telecasts on ESPN, ESPN2, and ABC in 1999–2000, the new deal called for 40 games on ESPN2. As part of this reduced commitment, the network cancelled NHL 2Night. ESPNEWS now provides expanded segments for Barry Melrose, usually on Thursday nights, to analyze NHL action. After the NHL returned to ESPN in 2021, the network would announce a new hockey studi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Pidto
Bill Pidto (born April 20, 1965) is a former radio personality on Mad Dog Radio on the show ''The B-Team'' and is currently an anchor for MSG Network's coverage of New York Rangers road games and select New York Knicks games. He was formerly a journalist for ESPN from 1993 to 2008. He was often seen as one of the anchors for ESPNews. Early years A native of Palo Alto, California, Pidto was a 1987 graduate of Cornell University where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology. At Cornell he began his broadcasting career as a sports anchor and reporter for WVBR, a radio station in Ithaca, New York. He was also a member of the Delta Chi fraternity. Career Pidto spent the following two years as the Sports director at WBNG-TV, located in Binghamton, New York. In 1989, he left WBNG for a sports anchor job at WSTM-TV in Syracuse, though he spent only a year at this station before moving on to the short-lived Sports News Network in 1990. He broke in with ESPN as a field producer f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ray Ferraro
Raymond Vincent Ferraro (born August 23, 1964) is a Canadians, Canadian former professional ice hockey player and currently sports commentator, broadcaster for NHL on ESPN, ESPN/NHL on ABC, ABC and formerly of TSN Hockey, TSN. He played for 21 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Hartford Whalers (1984–85 NHL season, 1984–1990–91 NHL season, 1990), New York Islanders (1990–1994–95 NHL season, 1995), New York Rangers (1995–96 NHL season, 1995–1996), Los Angeles Kings (1996–1998–99 NHL season, 1999), Atlanta Thrashers (1999–2000 NHL season, 1999–2001–02 NHL season, 2002) and St. Louis Blues (2002). Biography Playing career Ferraro was a prolific scorer in junior hockey, including a 108-goal and 192-point season for the Western Hockey League (WHL)'s Brandon Wheat Kings in 1983–84 WHL season, 1983–84. He also was a member of the 1982–83 Portland Winterhawks, Portland Winter Hawks squad that won the 1983 Memorial Cup. Ferraro's teammate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Hockey League On Television
The National Hockey League (NHL) is shown on national television in the United States and Canada. With 25 teams in the U.S. and 7 in Canada, the NHL is the only one of the four major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada that maintains separate national broadcasters in each country, each producing separate telecasts of a slate of regular season games, playoff games, and the Stanley Cup Finals. National broadcasting rights in Canada have included ''Hockey Night in Canada'' (''HNIC''), a long-standing Canadian tradition that debuted on CBC Television in 1952. Since the 2014–15 season, Rogers Sportsnet has held the Canadian national contract, sub-licensing a slate of games to the CBC, and sub-licensing the national French-language rights to TVA Sports. Historically, the NHL never held a long-term exclusive deal with a U.S. national broadcast network prior to the 1994–95 NHL season. NBC and CBS held rights at various times from 1956 to 1981, but neither br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Sports Television Series
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams Soccer * B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ESPN2 Original Programming
ESPN (originally an initialism for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network) is an American international basic cable sports channel owned by ESPN Inc., owned jointly by The Walt Disney Company (80%) and Hearst Communications (20%). The company was founded in 1979 by Bill Rasmussen along with his son Scott Rasmussen and Ed Eagan. ESPN broadcasts primarily from studio facilities located in Bristol, Connecticut. The network also operates offices and auxiliary studios in Miami, New York City, Las Vegas, Seattle, Charlotte, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles. James Pitaro currently serves as chairman of ESPN, a position he has held since March 5, 2018, following the resignation of John Skipper on December 18, 2017. While ESPN is one of the most successful sports networks, there has been criticism of ESPN. This includes accusations of biased coverage, conflict of interest, and controversies with individual broadcasters and analysts. , ESPN reaches approximately 76 million tele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Corke
Kevin Corke is an American journalist and is presently a White House Correspondents' Association for Fox News in Washington D.C. Corke has covered four U.S. administrations (Bush, Obama, Trump, Biden). Previously, he was a national news correspondent based in Washington, D.C. for NBC News from 2004-2008. While much of his work there involved coverage of the Bush Administration as a member of the White House Press Corps, Corke also frequently reported from The Pentagon, U.S. Supreme Court and other locations in Washington, D.C. Corke figured prominently in Fox’s coverage of the 2020 summer protests and previously was part of NBC's coverage of the Virginia Tech shooting. Previously, Corke was a news anchor at WTVJ-TV NBC in Miami. Corke also has been frequently seen as a play-by-play sports broadcaster for ESPN. Corke was an anchor and coordinating producer at ESPN in Bristol, CT. While there, he could be seen anchoring '' SportsCenter'', the network's flagship progra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Saunders (journalist)
John Peterson Saunders (February 2, 1955 – August 10, 2016) was a Canadian-American sports journalist. He worked for ESPN and ABC from 1986 until his death in 2016. Early life and career Saunders attended high school in Châteauguay. Saunders was an all-star defenseman in the Montreal junior leagues, received a scholarship and played hockey at Western Michigan University from 1974 to 1976 with his brother, Bernie. He transferred to Ryerson University in Toronto and played for the Rams from 1976 to 1978. After the 1977–78 season, Saunders was named to the Ontario University Athletic Association All-Star team. He was the news director for CKNS Radio (Espanola, Ontario, 1978), and sports anchor at CKNY-TV (North Bay, Ontario, 1978–1979) and at ATV News (New Brunswick, 1979–1980). He also served as the main sports anchor for CITY-TV (Toronto, 1980–1982). He then moved to the United States to work as a sports anchor at WMAR-TV (Baltimore, 1982–1986). Career at ESPN a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darren Pang
Darren Robert Pang (born February 17, 1964) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender. He played his professional career with the Chicago Blackhawks of the National Hockey League (1984–85 and 1987–89). He is currently the lead color commentator with the St. Louis Blues, and is the #2 Inside the Glass analyst on TNT. He also does work for NHL Network. Playing career Pang grew up playing hockey in Nepean, Ontario for the Nepean Raiders. As a youth, he played alongside many future NHLers, including Doug Smith, Dan Quinn and Steve Yzerman. He and teammate Dan Quinn played in the 1977 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament with a minor ice hockey team from West Ottawa. Pang later played for the Nepean Raiders Major Midget team that represented Ontario in the Air Canada Cup as a 15-year-old. He was the first goalie drafted by the expansion Belleville Bulls, winning their first ever game in the OHL. He was traded to the Ottawa 67's, where he won the Memorial ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dave Revsine
Dave Revsine (born July 20, 1969 in Urbana, Illinois), is an American sportscaster, and sports columnist and journalist who currently serves as the lead studio host for the Big Ten Network. Previously, he was a journalist at ESPN anchoring on '' SportsCenter'' and ESPNEWS, along with play-by-play on select college basketball games. Biography Revsine attended Glenbrook North High School and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Northwestern University in 1991. While at Northwestern, Revsine was heavily involved in broadcasting and became a sportscaster on WNUR Radio. Awarded a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship, Revsine lived abroad for a year after college. As a Rotary Scholar he attended Trinity College, Dublin and played on the school's basketball team. Prior to becoming a sports journalist, Revsine was an investment banker at Chase Manhattan Bank in New York City. He worked there for one year prior to landing a job on TV as a Sports Anchor and Reporter at KXII-TV in Sherman, Texas. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eddie Olczyk
Edward Walter Olczyk Jr. (; born August 16, 1966) is a former center in the National Hockey League for 16 seasons with the Chicago Blackhawks, Toronto Maple Leafs, Winnipeg Jets, New York Rangers, Los Angeles Kings, and Pittsburgh Penguins. He won the Stanley Cup with the Rangers in 1994. Olczyk was also the head coach of the Pittsburgh Penguins from June 2003 to December 2005. He served as a television color commentator for ''NHL on NBC'' until its end in 2021 and currently commentates on TNT and Seattle Kraken games on Root Sports Northwest. He also currently serves as the Horse Racing Handicapper and Analyst for NBC's Horse Racing Coverage. Throughout his career as an NHL player, he played 1,031 NHL games and produced 342 goals and 452 assists for a total of 794 points. He was inducted into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame on February 22, 2013. Olczyk was tied with Phil Kessel for the second-longest point streak by an American-born player in NHL history, at 18 games, h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob McKenzie (sportscaster)
Robert Malcomson McKenzie (born August 16, 1956) is a Canadian hockey commentator who has covered hockey since joining TSN in 1986. As a TSN Hockey Insider and TSN's Draft Expert, McKenzie provides analysis for ''NHL on TSN'' telecasts, as well as for the IIHF World Junior Championships, NHL Draft, NHL Trade Deadline, Free Agency, and for six Olympic Winter Games. Early life and education McKenzie was born in Toronto and attended Bendale Public School. After graduating from Ryerson Polytechnic University, McKenzie was hired for his first full-time newspaper job at ''The Sault Star'' in 1979. Career In 1981, McKenzie quit ''The Sault Star'' and moved back to Toronto to earn a job in the sports department at one of the mainstream papers. Although he earned a position as a copy editor in ''The Globe and Mail''s sports department, he was not offered any full-time positions. In 1982, McKenzie was offered a position as editor-in-chief of ''The Hockey News''. McKenzie stayed at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Kim (television Anchor)
Michael Kim (born in Columbia, Missouri) is an American television sports personality and is currently an anchor for Stadium. Kim was the lead presenter for SportsCenter on ESPN America, viewed in 67 countries and territories in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. This edition of SportsCenter, which launched March 1, 2010, also airs on ESPN (UK). Kim joined ESPN as one of the original presenters on ESPNEWS prior to its November 1, 1996, launch. In his 17 years at ESPN, he has also contributed as an anchor to ESPN's ''SportsCenter'' and other ESPNEWS and information programming including '' First Take'' and ''NHL 2Night''. School Kim graduated from Fulton High School in Fulton, Missouri in 1982. He was a three-sport athlete for the FHS football, basketball, and baseball teams. He was a three-year letterman in football, playing quarterback and wide receiver, and earned all-conference honors as a punter in 1981. A four-year letterman in baseball, Kim was named to the all-con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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